There is an enormous difference between forced worship of a particular god or God ... and God’s own express, specific and narrow road of redemption that the Bible says is the only way to Heaven.
I don’t condemn you for whatever god or God you worship. God is the Judge and unforgiven sin is what results in condemnation. Yet God is not willing that any should perish....
Tolerance in a medical context, BTW, is how much toxin a body can survive.
Good point about tolerance. :-)
We are commanded to be patient, forebearing and forgiving which the libs try to sell as tolerance.
This is why I fear “nondemoninationalism.” It claims to be simply bible-centered, but what church has not? In its first generation, the hyperliteralism of conservatives disaffected from their original denomination suffices. But where to after that? Black and immivasion churches are also hyperliteralist, and often totally devoid of morality, because word meanings themselves are traditions. Tradition-nuetral would be one thing, but what I call “antidenominationalism” is huge, and often has the mentality, “if a tradition says A, the truth must be B.”
If tradition-based literalist churches succomb so easy to arguments for insisting the bible is OK with homosexuality, what chance to anti-traditionalist churches have? How long before someone convinces everyone that the word translated as “fornication,” for instance, has nothing to do with premarital sex? Or that no-where does the bible condemn abortion?
Another great assessment.